3 reasons why you hate Poland.

Incidentally, my mum was Czech, and I spent 3 years in India as well. So I guess I got to taste quite a variety of foods and dishes, including my British experience as of now ;-)

Yummy,
knedliczki :)

I hope with a descendant of the soldiers of Alexander the Great.Not a common Indian.


If you can eat british food,you can eat everything.


knedliky,my friend.Knedliky.(a zeli).

Well, actually, with my parents. I was 6-9 years old at the time... ;-)


That's why I endeavour to cook my own meals ;-p


Vepřo-knedlo-zelo: the food of the gods... How I miss it sometimes!

Yes,that's right.It is my food.Tell now honestly:Does czech food taste 100 times better than polish food,or not?

It's a bit like comparing apples and pears. I would say the best in Polish cuisine comes from the noblemen's tradition, and is related to Russian and Lithuanian cookery. On the other hand, Czech cuisine is strongly related to Austrian and even some Hungarian traditions (guláš, leèo). And of course, because my mum was Czech, my most most beloved comfort foods have to be Czech, they're what I grew up with... :-)

Do you prefer czech or polish culture?Do you feel more comfortable in CR or Poland?

Do you know what British food is?

I have basically lived most of my life in Poland, and my mum has been dead these many years now. So I am more Polish than Czech in my outlook and everyday life, I'm sure. It's hard being divided in this way, but I know that if had to live in the Czech Rep. permanently, it would probably seem odd because although I know the language and the culture, I would still be an outsider. There's loads of small everyday things I just don't know because I don't visit that often or stay long enough when I do... :-(

So you don't go to nude beaches.Pity.


No,I avoid it.

I don't, but my Czech friends did ;-p

Ironically most of the people at nude beaches are not the kind you want to see naked. One of life's little jokes.

Yes,of course.Who do you think is more liberal,czech or polish girls?You think polish are more family oriented?
Nature in CR and Poland is equally attractive.There is no sea in CR but there are nude beaches.Ah,ceske holky vs polskie dziewczyny.

as a vegetarian, do you then take B12 supplements?

Go Polska Long Live Poland!!!

OK, let me add one or two...

1) When you work for a languge school as a 'native speaker' and then they tell you on signing the contract "by the way, you're not employed, you're a contractor and we pay you 20 days AFTER the end of the month"

2) At the same time, the tell you that the rate they told you net, is actually now the gross rate.

3) When you come to submit your bill after a month's hard work, they proudly announce "by the way, you need a NIP" and the ONLY assistance they offer is to tell you the street that the tax office is on. No building number, not even the words I need in Polish to identify the building, let alone know what a NIP is or which type i need. I have seen on one forum that a NIP is NOT required... but try and explain that to you manager...

4) To find that to obtain a NIP or registration I will need certain documents... but there is no information regarding which documents or if I need a PESEL (except the very kind forum postings) - and to learn that some offices know what they are doing but not do not... so it's pot-luck as to whether I'm going to get what I need today and actually get paid!

So... to the friendly person who kindly suggested I get on a plane and leave... trust me, I'm this close [show thumb and forefinger about a millimeter apart)

The only saving grace is that since before my arrival in Poland I made a Polish business acquaintance who has been the most helpful person I have met and he continues to be so. If it wasn't for him, I'd have gone a long time ago. So, thank-you Jacek! I'm expecting to start working for him full time soon; then I can tell the school where to go.

Me

So you did not make any inquiries on your own whatsoever? Did you really totally rely on some random secretary in a random language school to tell you what you needed to do? Hey, it's not really their job anyway, their job is to answer the phone and file documents ;-)

So it's actually just one school and one or two people who messed up, not Poland as a whole, not even a single town or region. :-)

Hahahaha

I have had my mail Stolen, ripped open to be checked inside for money! I am still waiting for my 2 nets of Copenhagen snuff my mom sent almost 7 years ago lol. My suggestion on Mailing anything is this! Make sure you get a tracking number on it so you can follow it step by step! I learned the hard way! Oh and I was in my apartment watching tv went and checked the post and found a piece of paper saying I had certified mail I missed! Here is the kicker he rang the door and I opened the main door for him to come in! Yeah I'd say they are lazy!

After 12 months still trying to get the damn hook registered on the car, one would think it is not that difficult, but thats another story.

my cope and snuff have always come but for one occassion. i found a more local supplier though and life's been bliss ever since.

Sounds just like the UK. I've had a cheque and a replacement debit card stolen from my mail, among other stuff. Oh, and the "sorry you were out" cards - don't get me started on those!

UPS or FedEx etc only if it's important. EMS does not honor their insurance or guarantee. They give you the typical Polish customer service and tell you too bad **** off.

Well i have tons of stuff sent to Poland by mail from my sister in UK...the only time anything went missing it was an envelope with money in , and i suspect it went missing in UK after it was x rayed and seen to contain money...My camera.s and other valubles all made it to Polska ok...so i have no complaints there.....

My post arrived pretty quick from England too, in fact about 3 days. It was a packer contained 4 poppies that I'd asked a friend to send. It arrived intact and very quickly.

As for the English mail... between folding items with "DO NOT BEND" all over them... folding CDs (!) and refusing to attempt delivery of an "incorrectly addressed" item to the ONLY street in the village (incidentally, the address was from the Royal Mail database!!)... oh and finally, illiterate postmen who cant read the street name or number... but then nothing is perfect i suppose..

the real killer is when they write "oh yes it does" on it.

Yeah, I had a case where I worked a full month in September. The boss was to put Sep on the invoice. It is ME who should submit the bill, NOT him. He said he'd do it so I let him go ahead. He said it was company policy. So, trusting him, I put it in his hands, only to find out that he put Oct 3 on the invoice. In effect, this meant that they could pay me in Nov for work done in Sep. What a joke!!

I am self-employed here in the UK and some of the translation agencies I work for pay me 30 days after the invoice date (which is sort of OK), some pay me up to 60 days after invoice date, and I had one agency (a local authority, actually) which would first collect my individual job confirmation sheets (over a month or longer), then send me (within up to a month) a list of the approved jobs with prices on them for me to write an invoice, then I would send them the invoice, and then I would get paid after exactly 30 days. How many days is that altogether? I lost track. ;-)

The treatment of small frims in the UK is diabolical. I once did some work for an energy company who then took over 70 days to pay me. In the end I refused to pay my domestic electricity bill and wrote to their CEO to tell him why. I got payed within 2 days. Cashflow is a real killer of otherwise viable buisnesses especially in the current economic climate. And it's usually the biggest firms or government agencies who are the worst culprits.

It's the old story. If they owe you money you'll wait forever and a day for it, if you owe them money however, they want it pronto. I had a bill of £9 once which I forgot to pay. The first letter I received from them about it was a notification that their lawyers had been notified and they intended to take me to court. Scare tactics. I called them up and told them they'd given me the best laugh of that week. I told them to add it onto the next bill, which they did and it was duly paid.

A few months later and the same company over charged me and then owed me something like £20. I told them and they said they would recredit my account...waited and waited and nothing. So I sent them a letter saying my lawyer had been notified and I intended to take them to court...never got a reply but I did get that £20 credited to my account within days.

The only solution to this is to have lots of clients with different pay patterns spread out over the whole month, and work for all of them for approx. the same amount of time in a given period. In this way, after the initial month-or-three of having to wait for the first payments to come through, you always have some money coming in from somewhere ;-)

I have been successfully employing this policy for some time now.